Journal of Other Forum Analysis

[Hap Shaughnessy]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/us-poliera-2023-ot-1-kevins-no-good-very-bad-day.672442/page-312#post-110083414

i'll (probably) be okay. i negotiated a decent severance agreement with no non-disclosure/nondisparagement provisions and my own language retaining rights to bill tracking IP i created and the substance of my policy analyses for them. just need to figure out what's next. it probably won't be another spineless queer national, which is a little daunting because that's been my thing for six years, but i'm in initial talks with two other folks about starting a new worker-owned bodily autonomy skunkworks org to house unified trans/abortion/harm reduction policy and practical support throughout the south.

i'm proud that my final two contributions to slack were calling out leadership for dropping their opposition to KOSA (overruling me as their policy analyst) and complaining that it was fucking dumb to give an interview about the trans hyde amendments in congress to the deputy ed (cis) instead of me (trans), the person the reporter reached out to based on previous work together. i have never been coy about the fact that whoever signs my paychecks i consider myself to work for community, so this was bound to happen eventually when the org's goals drifted far enough away from community needs. i will always be the squeaky wheel for sex workers, people who use drugs, and trans folks, even if that means getting canned by establishment lifers. my ethics and politics demand it of me, and i'm all three of those things in any case.

what self-respecting activist wouldn't be proud to go out on this?

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